Usually means: Wheel with grooves for rope.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheave: Merriam-Webster
  2. sheave, sheave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sheave, sheave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sheave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sheave: Wordnik
  6. sheave: Wiktionary
  7. sheave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. sheave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sheave: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sheave: Dictionary.com
  11. Sheave (mechanical), Sheave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sheave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sheave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Sheave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sheave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. sheave: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sheave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sheave: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sheave: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sheave)

▸ noun:  A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
▸ noun:  A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
▸ verb:  To gather and bind into a sheaf.

Similar:
shiver, pulley, pulley block, gear, monkey wheel, gear wheel, pulley shell, split wheel, nave, scape-wheel, more...

Opposite:
pulley, block, hoist

Types:
block, pulley, gear, belt, chain, pulley block, sheave block, sheave pulley, more...

Phrases:
sheave hole, eccentric sheave, dead sheave, dumb sheave, more...

Adjectives:
eccentric, small, large, single, secondary, fixed, driven, grooved, lower, upper, primary

Colors:
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Similar:
shiver, pulley, pulley block, gear, monkey wheel, gear wheel, pulley shell, split wheel, nave, scape-wheel, more...

Opposite:
pulley, block, hoist

Types:
block, pulley, gear, belt, chain, pulley block, sheave block, sheave pulley, more...

Phrases:
sheave hole, eccentric sheave, dead sheave, dumb sheave, more...

Adjectives:
eccentric, small, large, single, secondary, fixed, driven, grooved, lower, upper, primary

Colors:
    gold,     amber,     wheat,     ochre,     mustard, more...



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